Contents -- Reviewer Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- [Chapter One] The Case of the Disappointed Office-Seeker: Marbury v. Madison (1803) -- The Judiciary Act of 1801 and the Midnight Judges -- William Marbury -- The First Step-Repeal of the 1801 Judiciary Act -- Marbury v. Madison -- The Politics and Logic of Marshall's Opinion -- The Republicans Continue Their Attack -- The Impeachment of Justice Chase -- Defining Treason -- Aftermath -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Two] The Case of the Larcenous Cashier: M'Culloch v. Maryland (1819) -- Interpreting the Constitution: Jefferson versus Hamilton -- James McCulloh-Cashier Extraordinaire -- Arguments before the Court -- Decision -- The States' Rights Attack -- John Marshall's Defense -- Citizen McCulloh -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Three] The Case of the Rival Steamboat Operators: Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) -- Mr. Fulton's Steamboat -- The Steamboat Monopoly -- Enter Gibbons and Ogden -- Creating a Question for the Federal Courts -- Arguing before the Supreme Court -- The Decision -- The Legacy of the Case -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Four] The Case of the Missionary to the Cherokee Worcester v. Georgia (1832) -- Setting the Stage -- Taking Indian Land -- Challenging Georgia Law in the Supreme Court -- Samuel Worcester Goes to Georgia -- The Georgia Law before the Supreme Court -- The Failure of Law and a Political Compromise -- Cherokee Removal -- Aftermath -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Five] The Case of the Zealous Slave Catcher: Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) -- The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 -- Personal Liberty Laws -- Edward Prigg and Margaret Morgan -- The Supreme Court Rules -- After Prigg: George Latimer -- The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading.

[Chapter Six] The Case of the Slave Who Would Be Free: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) -- Dred Scott and His Travels -- The Case in the Missouri State Courts -- The Growing Storm over Slavery -- The Compromise of 1850 -- Dred Scott in the Missouri Supreme Court -- A Diversity Case-or Not -- Before the Supreme Court -- "The Self-Inflicted Wound" -- Aftermath -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Seven] The Case of the Antiwar Agitator: Ex parte Milligan (1866) -- The Making of a Copperhead -- Opposing the War -- Military Trial -- Ex parte Merryman -- Ex parte Vallandigham -- Arguing the Case -- The Court's Decision -- Milligan in History -- Milligan after the Case -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Eight] The Case of the New Orleans Butchers The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) -- A Simple Health Regulation in an Unhealthy City -- The Butchers Fight Back -- Defining Rights -- In the Louisiana Courts -- Justice Joseph Bradley, on Circuit -- Before the U.S. Supreme Court -- A Closely Divided Court Decides -- Aftermath -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Nine] The Case of the Woman Who Wanted to Be a Lawyer: Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) -- Myra Bradwell -- The Chicago Legal News -- The Nascent Women's Movement -- A History of Legal Discrimination -- Small Doors in the Wall -- A Person of Good Character-but Not Eligible -- On Appeal to the Supreme Court -- The Decision -- Moving On, and Triumphing -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Ten] The Case of the Devout Bigamist: Reynolds v. United States (1879) -- Mormon Beliefs -- The Growing Opposition to the Faith -- George Reynolds -- The Test Case -- The Supreme Court Decides: Belief versus Practice -- Reaction to the Decision -- The Persecution and Prosecution of the Mormons -- The End of Plural Marriage -- Continuing Questions -- George Reynolds's Last Years.

Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Eleven] The Case of the Reluctant Strike Leader: In re Debs (1895) -- George M. Pullman and the Palace Car -- Pullman, Illinois -- Eugene Victor Debs -- The American Railway Union -- The Pullman Workers Strike -- The Boycott -- Violence -- Judge Grosscup Issues an Injunction -- The Trial of Eugene V. Debs -- The High Court Rules -- Aftermath -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Twelve] The Case of the Almost-White Traveler: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -- The Freedmen after the Civil War -- The Beginnings of Jim Crow -- Challenging the Separate Car Act -- Enter Homer Adolphe Plessy -- The Separate Car Act in the Courts -- The Supreme Court Decides -- Justice Harlan's Dissent -- Plessy's Bitter Fruits -- Coda -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Thirteen] The Case of the Stubborn Baker Lochner v. New York (1905) -- Industrialization and Protective Legislation -- Substantive Due Process versus the Police Power -- Bakeshops at the Turn of the Century -- Trying to Clean Up the Bakeshops -- Joseph Lochner Challenges the Law -- The Supreme Court Hands Down a Surprise Decision -- Lochner's Aftermath -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Fourteen] The Case of the Gentle Anarchist: Abrams v. United States (1919) -- World War I and Speech -- Jacob Abrams Opposes the War -- Theories of Speech and the Bad Tendency -- Schenck and "Clear and Present Danger" -- Holmes Learns from His Critics -- Abrams: Fighting Faiths -- Reaction to Holmes's Dissent: Pro and Con -- The Sad End of Jacob Abrams -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Fifteen] The Case of the High-Tech Bootlegger: Olmstead v. United States (1928) -- The Road to the Noble Experiment -- Prohibition in Practice -- The Olmstead Ring in Seattle -- The Meaning of the Fourth Amendment -- Chief Justice Taft's Opinion.

Justices Butler and Holmes Dissent -- The Brandeis Dissent and the Right of Privacy -- Roy Olmstead Reforms -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Sixteen] The Four Horsemen's Last Ride: The New Deal Cases (1930s) -- The Great Depression -- The Court and State Measures to Combat the Depression -- The New Deal Begins -- Going Off the Gold Standard -- The National Industrial Recovery Act -- The Schechter Case -- The New Deal Farm Program and the Court -- The Attack on the New Deal Continues -- The Court-Packing Plan -- Elsie Parrish Wants Her Money -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Seventeen] The Case of the Conscientious Schoolchildren: The Flag-Salute Cases (1940 and 1943) -- Lillian Gobitas Acts on Her Faith -- The Witnesses in Federal Courts -- The Witnesses in the High Court: Round I -- The Violent Response to the Decision -- Expanding the Boundaries of the First Amendment -- The High Court: Round II -- Aftermath -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Eighteen] The Case of Too-Long-Delayed Equality: Brown v. Board of Education (1954 and 1955) -- Linda Brown and the Other Plaintiffs -- From Plessy to Brown -- The Arguments -- The Decision -- The Response -- Remedies and Brown II -- Moving-but Slowly -- Ike and Little Rock -- The Beginnings of Desegregation -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Nineteen] The Case of the Robust Press: New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) -- Merton Nachman Reads the Newspaper -- The Struggle for Civil Rights in Alabama -- L. B. Sullivan and Law Enforcement in Montgomery -- The Sit-in Movement Comes to Alabama -- "Heed Their Rising Voices" -- A Brief History of Libel Law -- The Sullivan Case -- The Supreme Court and the Press Clause -- "Debate on Public Issues Should Be Uninhibited,Robust, and Wide-Open" -- Aftermath -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading.

[Chapter Twenty] The Case of the Uninformed Rapist: Miranda v. Arizona (1966) -- The Victim -- Ernesto Miranda and His Confession -- The Due Process Revolution Begins: Gideon v. Wainwright -- The Fifth Amendment's "Great Right" -- Connecting the Fifth and Sixth Amendments: Massiah -- Strengthening the Connection: Escobedo -- "You Have the Right to Remain Silent" -- The Success of Miranda -- Refining Miranda -- Miranda's End -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Twenty-One] The Case That Aroused Great Passions: Roe v. Wade (1973) -- Abortion Legislation: A Brief History -- Growing Support for Abortion Rights -- Establishing the Right to Privacy -- Sarah Weddington Meets Norma McCorvey -- Jane Roe Wins Round One -- Abortion in the Supreme Court before Roe -- Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton -- The Response to the Decisions -- Aftermath -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Twenty Two] Coming Out of the Closet and into the Courts:The Gay Rights Cases (1986-2003) -- Michael Hardwick Is Arrested -- Hardwick Goes to Court-Charting Unfamiliar Territory -- The Gay Rights Movement -- Hardwick in the Supreme Court -- The Court Tries to Find Its Way -- A Ray of Hope-Romer v. Evans -- John Geddes Lawrence Is Arrested -- The Supreme Court Decides -- The Aftermath of Lawrence -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- [Chapter Twenty-Three] The Constitution Besieged: The War on Terror Cases (2000s) -- Rounding Up Suspected Aliens -- Zacarias Moussaoui -- Enemy Combatants -- The Prisoners of Guantánamo -- The Supreme Court Issues a Warning -- Hamdan v. Rumsfeld -- Another Rebuke from the Court -- Aftermath -- Cases Cited -- For Further Reading -- Constitution of the United States -- Glossary -- Index.